Dramatist Savyon Liebrecht was recently in the Boston area for a residency with Israeli Stage -- two of her scripts, both dealing with Freud and his legacy, received their world premieres he…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:06PMFort Point Theater Channel made a call for submissions for a new play to serve as a companion piece to "Krapp's Last Tape." The result: a performance of Samuel Beckett's classic with the wor…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:17PMThe Underground Railway Theater production shows that sometimes children's theater is capable of a moral depth (perhaps even a fearlessness) that adult theater often avoids.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:01PMUnlike much of what comes through the new play development pipeline, "The Whale" proffers a coherent narrative structure -- the result is a well-crafted, somewhat edgy, domestic tragedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:55PM“Everybody has the power to change the world because we’re a part of it. Even if it’s a really small change, it needs to be done. Writing is my pebble in this path.” - Jérôme Richer
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:01AMThe 64,000 question is, if the artists' concerns gravitated to the Marathon Bombings, why did "Interference"'s press releases and the program cite Picasso's "Guernica"?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:56PM"The working relationship is based on the mutual feeling that all three of us have the same understanding of the purpose of the theatre – to present plays that create a cathartic experienc…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44AM"There is a struggle in love in the best of circumstances, and when on top of the daily challenges there are divisions of culture or society or simply of invented categories – well, that d…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:23PMIf "Henry VIII" is dramatically lacking when compared to Shakespeare's other histories, what makes this production worthwhile is the care Actors' Shakespeare Project has brought to staging i…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:48PMIn his satire "The Golden Dragon," Roland Schimmelpfennig holds his funhouse mirror up to “theater-people”: be they artists, audience, teachers, or students.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:53AM"The Whore From Ohio" is a provocative reminder that the same creature that is born to eat, drink, copulate, rot, and die is also a creature that dreams, tells stories, contemplates its own …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:32PMRefreshingly, playwright Marianna Salzmann manages to be political without being didactic. Her characters live (rather than preach) through history, grappling with the transition from totali…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:33PMBTC's experiment, while not without its faults, proffers an admirable model of the sort of creative thinking that more companies should emulate when placing Shakespearean drama in a contempo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:03PMActors' Shakespeare Project's production is a fine start to the company's tenth aniversary season and an impressive realization of its founding mission statement -- for this company, story …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AMSwiss Stage's inaugural offering was Dog Paddle (Schwimmen wie Hunde), a domestic comedy based on existential themes, by the German-speaking playwright Reto Finger.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:23PMPlaywright Stephen Jeffreys, despite his gifts as a writer, despite his fascination with the milieu, and despite his obvious admiration for Wilmot's rarified obscenity, seems unable to find …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:34AMDirector Spiro Veloudos keeps the clockwork running smoothly, not just ensuring that that the actors keep the rhythm, but making use of a skilled backstage crew who engineer (miraculously an…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:00PMThis production of Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice" tries to have it both ways: a show about intolerance, bigotry, and hatred is set in a 'politically correct' past.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:07PMAnat Gov does a fine job on the meta-playwriting level. "Best Friends" is a genre piece that is also an affectionate commentary on the genre to which it belongs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:43AMThe Federalist Society goes to the theater... and free-associates.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 07:10PMLeaving aside the doctrinal issue of how much of a commedia dell'arte evening should be improvised and how much should be scripted, the Yale Repertory Theatre production, in terms of perfor…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24AMDirector Guy Ben-Aharon is on a roll. Working through Israeli Stage and German Stage, he has brought together another smart, compelling foreign play (an American premiere) and a first-rate c…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:12PMDespite being a staged reading with scripts still in hand, the members of the Israeli Stage ensemble were already comfortably inhabiting their roles, striking just the right balance between …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:59AMPlaywright Gericke-Schönhagen, hoping to avoid the phenomenon of talking heads, deliberately placed emphasis on those letters between Voltaire and Frederick that dramatized personalities ra…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:51PM"The Boston theatre community can always profit from international influx. The German theatre scene in particular is quite innovative both in the plays being written and the productions that…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:17PMThe agility of Les 7 Doigts de la Main's acrobats may be the spectacle that draws audiences in to see "Séquence 8," but it's their decision to treat acrobatics and other types of circus vir…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AM"One of the enormous changes I’ve seen is that in big city theater scenes, queer work isn’t so scarce anymore, which is great. These days, no major theater company in a city like Boston …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:40PMMany historical dramas are content to use the past as a lens through which to view the present, but "Hand in Hand Together" does more than explore how conflicting ideologies influenced the c…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:28PMA sobering look at Schumann's past and present.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:41PM"As an artist, you probably know when a project pulls at you, sometimes kicking and screaming. Shylock definitely has me by the back of the neck."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMThis daring musical version of "The Merchant of Venice" provides a fascinating re-imagining of a classic play that explores many of the themes and tropes of the original more deeply than man…
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